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Charles Pelham Villiers (3 January 1802 – 16 January 1898) was a British lawyer and politician from the aristocratic Villiers family. He sat in the House of Commons for 63 years, from 1835 to 1898, making him the longest-serving Member of Parliament (MP).
Charles Pelham Villiers, statesman, born on 3 January 1802 in Upper Grosvenor Street, London, was third son of George Villiers (1759-1827), by his wife, Theresa Parker (d. 1855), only daughter of John, first baron Boringdon.
From 1835-1885, Charles Villiers was MP for the single constituency of Wolverhampton and then from 1885 until his death in 1898 as MP for Wolverhampton South (Bilston). Villiers stood for election for the Whig Party in Wolverhampton in January 1835. Having won that contest he was re-elected in 1837. Charles Villiers' election result poster ...
Charles Pelham Villiers was the third son of George Villiers, fourth Earl of Clarendon. 1 Villiers attended Kensington School of Thomas Wright Hill and East India College as a young boy, and then studied law at St John's College at Cambridge in 1820. 2 He graduated with an MA in 1827, and was called to the bar the same year. 3 Throughout his ...
16 de mar. de 2017 · Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical. This book provides the first biographical study of Charles Pelham Villiers (1802-1898), whose long UK parliamentary career...
It provides a detailed analysis and re-assessment of Villiers' specific contribution to the movement for the repeal of the Corn Laws, for which he acquired a national reputation as a champion of Free Trade. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book.
Charles Pelham Villiers, 1802-1898, was educated at Haileybury and St. Johns College, Cambridge, becoming a barrister at Lincolns Inn in 1827. He held Benthamite political views, and enjoyed a long career in public service and Parliament.
